Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:34:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:34:22 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:20104 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:34:22 -0500 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 18:43:17 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Anton Blanchard Cc: Tim Schmielau , lkml , "Randy.Dunlap" , Denis Vlasenko Subject: Re: [PATCH] make jiffies wrap 5 min after boot Message-ID: <20030216024317.GM29983@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Anton Blanchard , Tim Schmielau , lkml , "Randy.Dunlap" , Denis Vlasenko References:

<20030216020808.GF9833@krispykreme> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030216020808.GF9833@krispykreme> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 607 Lines: 15 At some point in the past, someone else wrote: >> +#define INITIAL_JIFFIES (0xffffffffUL & (unsigned long)(-300*HZ)) On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 01:08:08PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote: > In order to make 64bit arches wrap too, you might want to use -1UL here. > Not that jiffies should wrap on a 64bit machine... Can I get a vote for ~0UL instead of -1UL? -- wli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/